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"Daniel Clement Dennett III" is an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.

He is currently the Co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and a Academic rank#United States/University Professor at Tufts University. Dennett is an atheist and secularism/secularist, a member of the Secular Coalition for America advisory board, as well as an outspoken supporter of the Brights movement. Dennett is referred to as one of the "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in popular culture/Four Horsemen of New Atheism", along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris (author)/Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens.